This had nothing to do with actual SLI and they have acknowledged that would occur well down the road. It was about softening the blow to AA pilots that the interim agreement to replace the current contract won't be all that much of an improvement and will still be well short of industry standard. In other words their promise of a better deal for AA pilots if a merge occurs if they ratified the 2nd LBFO will be mostly inaccurate and disappointing, but necessary to move forward.

I think Wilson is urging an interim deal so the merger can proceed, but no ISL until afterward.

There is virtually no difference in the mid-contract adjustment from Parker or Horton.

I already work for a global carrier.

Seriously? Who cares who the aircraft manufacturer is?

In addition to the routes currently flown by both airlines, what NEW routes will be flown? This is key. Please be specific.

There is NOTHING to indicate that a merger will cause trips to be "efficient." Many of the trips at DAL are horrific and grossly inefficient.

Please list what these "synergies" are.

Irrelevant if the rest of the system is not profitable.

Once again, who cares. Should I tell my family the wonderful news that we have the "opportunity" to move to Philly?

CAL & UAL have not hooked up yet. Wait until the seniority food fight begins. It will be AWA vs. USAir version 2.0.

NWA & DAL have realized many good things because of very specific events. DAL had a mass retirement surge pre-merger. DAL & NWA had relatively equal operations and resulting seniority list mergers.

Seniority is everything. This merger will be nothing less than a windfall for the west, a wash for the east, and devastating for AA pilots.

No thanks.

You can keep your "synergies."

Top 3 concerns:

1. Seniority
2. Seniority
3. Seniority

Sorry, but with the way AA has shrunk the past several years, any SLI based upon relative seniority would be devastating to the AA pilots. Just ask the Easties how well relative seniority worked out.

Here are a few novel questions - If Mr. Parker had been appointed CEO of AMR on November 29, 2011, how would he have dealt with the unions at AA through this BK process? Were he CEO at AA, would he have proposed a merger with US? Is past performance any indicator of future performance? It's hard for many to remove the emotion from the equation. Ultimately, for every pilot, our lives and careers are governed by seniority. It is understandable that most of the US pilots are in favor of the deal as it results in a huge windfall without the necessity of going through section 6 negotiations.

While hope isn't a strategy or something to hang your hat on, and since the membership won't get a vote, one can only pray that the APA leadership has looked at every possible downside for its members and factored it into an MOU!

T58 - simple question - what floor do you press on the elevator to get to work?

Well the CR key and the smaller one works wonders.

I've never hid the act that I'm a diehard AAer and its consistent throughout my posts. Ultimately, despite all the angst expressed in this forum, mine included, the newly constituted AMR BOD will determine who the CEO will be. If they decide along with the UCC that a merger is in our best interests and that the CEO is Mr. Parker or Mr. Horton, I'll move on and give the company combined company my all.

The focus of this particular thread is whether a seniority integration plan should be presented and agreed to prior to a merger. I happen to be in the group that believe you leave as little to arbitrators as possible.

If you have another agenda, I'll leave you to it but I won't indulge it.

No need to apologize, those are three good reasons. I don't have to ask an eastie, I am one. Seems to me AA would be in a better position than US pilots were, but I don't have any data to back that up.

Good luck to us all.

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